[Tutor] Simple Python Address Book (Advice welcome!)

[Wayne Werner]

On Sun, 17 Jun 2012, Alan Gauld wrote:

> On 17/06/12 02:45, mariocatch wrote:
>> after each row?
>>          #it's causing multiple line separations when writing back out
>> to file (because each
>>          #  time we finish reading, it ends with a trailing newline).
>>          f.write("{0}{1}{2}\n".format(k, recordDelimiter, v))
>
> Sorry, you have to add a newline when writing to the file and strip it off 
> when reading. Its just how it is...

If you're using Python3 or from __future__ import print_function, you can do
this

print(k,v, sep=recordDelimiter, file=f)

Which might make things a little cleaner. There's also the end parameter which
defaults to end='\n'

HTH,
Wayne